We went out!!!
A while ago Mum spotted an article about a new musical coming to London - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical and she waved this in my direction because we have both long been fans and have several of her albums. When tickets went on sale I snapped some up and yesterday was the day.
We started the evening at Belgos on Kingsway, because mussels. This definitely reason enough on it's own, but the fact that it is socially acceptable to have a meal that is mussels and nothing but the mussels certainly doesn't hurt given I'm currently doing the low carbs thing again. I had traditional mussels, which meant they added a bit of cream to the cooking sauce and when it came out it smelled all garlicky and fabulous and it was certainly the best bowl of mussels I've had in a long while. MMMMMMM.
We went out for a brief saunter to kill time given we were running early and then made our way to the Aldwych Theatre, there to ascend to the Grand Circle second row right in the middle, from where we had an excellent view of the stage. Then we people watched and remarked upon how the audience was very definitely skewed to the subject of the musical since it was heavy on the women of my age and above (though the couple to my right were there because the husband has wanted to come).
This is a jukebox musical, with a thin plotline narrating Carole Kings early life in music, up to the recording of her Tapestry album and her performance at Carnegie Hall. It was helped by the fact that she and her then husband Gerry Goffin were prolific writers of songs for other performers before she became a performer in her own right. I learnt things, like that she/they wrote The Locomotion and a number of other well known 60s tracks, so there were a lot of those in the musical as well as the songs she performed herself.
We had a great time though I wish I'd had tickets for Tuesday night because that was the official First Night and Carole King herself was there - how awesome would that have been? We came away with the intention of going to more musicals in the future, because it was a lovely evening out.
We started the evening at Belgos on Kingsway, because mussels. This definitely reason enough on it's own, but the fact that it is socially acceptable to have a meal that is mussels and nothing but the mussels certainly doesn't hurt given I'm currently doing the low carbs thing again. I had traditional mussels, which meant they added a bit of cream to the cooking sauce and when it came out it smelled all garlicky and fabulous and it was certainly the best bowl of mussels I've had in a long while. MMMMMMM.
We went out for a brief saunter to kill time given we were running early and then made our way to the Aldwych Theatre, there to ascend to the Grand Circle second row right in the middle, from where we had an excellent view of the stage. Then we people watched and remarked upon how the audience was very definitely skewed to the subject of the musical since it was heavy on the women of my age and above (though the couple to my right were there because the husband has wanted to come).
This is a jukebox musical, with a thin plotline narrating Carole Kings early life in music, up to the recording of her Tapestry album and her performance at Carnegie Hall. It was helped by the fact that she and her then husband Gerry Goffin were prolific writers of songs for other performers before she became a performer in her own right. I learnt things, like that she/they wrote The Locomotion and a number of other well known 60s tracks, so there were a lot of those in the musical as well as the songs she performed herself.
We had a great time though I wish I'd had tickets for Tuesday night because that was the official First Night and Carole King herself was there - how awesome would that have been? We came away with the intention of going to more musicals in the future, because it was a lovely evening out.